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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






2. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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3. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






4. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






5. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






6. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






7. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






8. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






9. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






10. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






11. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






12. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






13. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






14. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






15. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






16. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






17. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






18. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






19. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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20. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






21. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






22. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






23. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






24. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






25. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






26. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






27. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






28. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






29. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






30. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






31. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






32. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






33. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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34. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






35. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






36. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






37. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






38. Wide Range Achievement Test






39. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






40. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






41. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






42. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






43. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






44. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






45. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






46. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






47. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






48. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






49. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






50. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the